This week, the Office for National Statistics has added ready-made mashed potato to the UK’s official shopping basket, which it uses to measure inflation, and people are up in arms. Who buys a pre-chopped onion that costs three times as much as a whole one? How lazy do you have to be to choose a frozen omelette over a couple of eggs?
These kinds of convenience foods are an easy target. But for the 13.3 million people in Britain with disabilities – and those living with arthritis, chronic illness, recovering from injury or surgery, or undergoing cancer treatment – convenience foods aren’t just convenient: they are a lifeline.
This is an issue close to my heart. I’m a professional cook, but I also have a chronic pain condition, and there are occasions when I can’t even hold a knife. In times like those, I’m never going to opt for the impenetrable whole butternut squash over one that has already been diced for me.
If your going to reference something in your story to try and make like some kind of Deep Meaningful Statement or for an Emotional Character Moment maybe actually spend five seconds on google doing some research on what your referencing first O.O
“Ask a historian or an archeologist and they’ll tell you there’s nothing to prove it ever really was a place”
Donna I don’t know what kind of archeologists or historians you’ve been talking to but I hope to god whereever they work never gave them tenure because they really need to be fired from their jobs
I think they’re blurring the line between Troy and the mythology of t why the Trojan war started
And doing quite a confusing job of it O.o
I am also FAIRLY sure that the stories of the Trojan War were very much not “The birth of literature” or the first stories ever told like…again I feel like Donna has been talking to some very confused historians
Wait. Is he talking about Ilida and the Odyssey? Oh my god does this goof think Ilida and the Odyssey is the first case of wirtten down literatture???
The oldest versions are from around the 8th century BC.
I’m-
This is not even *close* to the Epic of Gilgamesh or the Egypt Book of the Dead. Some of the oldest texts we know of which most certainly were not the first ones to be writen down, just some of the only ones we have records for.
They were from around 2000 centuries BC!
How can you fail that misserably?!
And what’s especially jarring is that it’s Donna Troy saying this stuff like
Her and Wonder Woman encounter people and beings FROM THESE TIMES on a regular basis
She is literally the LAST PERSON IN THE WORLD who should be saying
A) That Troy was just a myth that someone made up
And
B) That the Illiad or the Odyssey is the first written literature in human history
Donna
I hope Diana never saw this confession tape because if she did she’s going to be facepalming SO HARD and also flying straight to where you live to give you some fricking history lessons
THIS SCENE IS A MESS O.O
Also the whole “histotians will tell you” part.
Like, first of all, yes there are historians who think the ruines of Troy might not actually be Troy.
But that is not a common consesis! Like at all..
Right?
It’s like having a character endorse Flat Earth Theory or the time an increasingly weird Neal Adams put his bizarre “The planet is expanding all the time” hollow earth nonsense that he believes in into a Batman story
I mean yes there are people who believe that but a person believing Absolute Nonsense does not make it a valid theory O.O
I love how confused adults get with our humor and vine refrences cause like i just replied to my brother with ‘four female ghostbusters?? the feminist are taking over!!’ and he just screams ‘IM AN ADULT VIRGIN’ and my mom still has no idea what we’re talking about
Sometimes I fear we accidentally created a new language
why fear it when you can embrace it
We actually have…an updated version. You know how the idioms we have are said but never finished because it’s assumed that as long as the person you’re talking to speaks the same language they’ll understand the rest?
Ie. Jack of all trades master of none->better than a master of one
Great minds think alike->but fools rarely differ
Over time the second half gets lost because it’s been passed down orally so some idioms meanings have been warped but that’s a different conversation (ie. “Blood is thicker than water” is actually “the blood of the convent is thicker than the water of the womb”)
Vine are like that for us. You only need say the first half and every person under 30 knows the second half, no context needed. It’s cool as shit how the internet has done that for us. Vine sayings have become idioms in a sense…
road work ahead??
Yeah i sure hope it does
CHRIS
IS THAT A WEED?
No this is a crayon-
IM CALLING THE COPS
As a Brazilian when people start talking in ~vine language~ I get lost, cause vine never really took off here so I don’t get the references and I’m like
“It looks like English so why can’t I understand it”
I came to learn vine talk like last year and all bc of tumblr’s vine compilations and memes that referenced them so muvh that, ecen though i had never seen the vone, i knew how it went
Hid art. Made graffiti, smuggled out kids, hid people, preserved knowledge, and kept the truth out of the lies
Not everyone is built to be a fighter. And that’s okay. A war isn’t won by the infantry alone. We need support in this trying time as the great beast called Facism rises. Don’t tolerate intolerance. Stay angry. Stay together. Stay smart.
Yes this could have to do with the fact that Freya the Norse Goddess of love, beauty and fertility drove a chariot pulled by cats.
So, if I ever get married, I fully expect a catmobile.
One of the other reasons why they gave cats to each other was for their valuable skills as mousers. Cats were able to control rodent populations around their properties.
Also, Norse myths are thought to have the earliest literary descriptions of the Norwegian Forest Cat. They were described as large, strong cats that drew Freya’s chariot and were so heavy that not even Thor, God of Thunder, could lift them from the floor. (Source)
They kinda live up to the legend, too. Your average Norwegian Forest Cat is twenty pounds of solid muscle, with claws large and strong enough to climb solid rock. They’ve been known to attack bears when defending their territory. And yet they’re one of the cuddliest breeds out there, particularly noted for being patient with small children.
I have a Norwegian mix, and can attest that she is the cuddliest cat but also insane enough to try and fight a bear.
sneaks into people’s bedrooms in the middle of the night
literally steals children and spirits them away
supposedly all of these children are ”lost” and fell out of their prams and whatnot but he also happily absconded with wendy, michael and john who were not even a little bit lost
chopped a man’s hand off and fed it to a crocodile nbd
(peter is supposed to be a child can we bear this in mind)
at the end when he rescues the lost boys et al he sneaks onto the jolly roger and slaughters ten pirates before they even realise he’s there
boy is a stone cold killer yo
and slightly just keeps a running verbal tally through all of it like those children are so unfazed by Peter Pan, Killing Machine
and a couple of quotes from the text to top it all off:
and when [the lost boys] seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out;
peter thins them out
okay
and my personal favourite:
He often went out alone, and when he came back you were never absolutely certain whether he had had an adventure or not. He might have forgotten it so completely that he said nothing about it; and then when you went out you found the body;
THEN WHEN YOU WENT OUT YOU FOUND THE BODY
?????????????????????????
I wrote my undergrad thesis on that little fucker!! Protip: read the original novelization of Peter Pan. It will weird you the fuck out.
My favorite part is when he scares Hook by mimicking the croc’s ticking noise. Except, in the book, he doesn’t do this on purpose. Instead he’s swimming along to the ship, hears the ticking, and starts ticking along, compulsively. For a few minutes, he sort of FORGETS that he’s human and his mind goes animal-blank, and he’s just rolling along ticking like the crocodile because HE THINKS HE’S A CROCODILE. Fun times.
My thesis was about how he’s a fundamentally amoral character. He does what he likes, and whenever anything happens that could result in character growth, he just FORGETS it.
Peter Pan is seriously like the scary child monster in a horror movie.
If you read the first appearance of Peter in Barrie’s The Little White Bird (later published alone as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens), it is fairly apparent that Barrie originally conceived of Peter as a ghost of a child who died of exposure in the park overnight, and who now buries other children who get lost in the park after the gates are shut. It ends: “But how strange for parents, when they hurry into the Gardens at the opening of the gates looking for their lost one, to find the
sweetest little tombstone instead. I do hope that Peter is not too
ready with his spade.”
Peter Pan: sort of a kid, but mostly some kind of child-shaped GOBLIN OR SOMETHING idk
That is 100% where Peter came from, but the story is even more complicated and bizarre than that. Barrie spent twenty some odd years writing and revising Peter Pan, in various incarnations, and the true story behind how LWB, Kensington Gardens, Peter & Wendy, and Peter Pan came to be is just… it’s quite unsettling, really. More or less so, depending on which rumors you believe about Barrie and how much stock you want to put into various biographies. But I do recommend you read the Lost Boys biography (Andrew Birkin) if you want to know the truly uncomfortable history behind it.
And yes, Peter was meant to be demonic and amoral, in Barrie’s own words. In fact, Barrie loudly complained about the statue of Peter in Kensington Gardens, because it didn’t “convey the devil in Peter”. Although, I reckon he was more pissed off by the fact that the sculptor, who Barrie paid out of his own pocket to erect the statue, used another boy as the model rather than the images that Barrie gave him to use and, frankly, if I was paying for something like that, I’d be pissed off too.
We need to talk about Peter
no one mentioned that he is twelve years old and has never lost his baby teeth and is described as having tiny tiny teeth with wide wide gaps, which is when i stopped reading the book, and liking peter pan, forever
I saw this tagged as transphobia and while the laws and atmosphere that surrounds this is very much grounded in transphobia, I think it’s worth mentioning that that’s a cis woman.
So you know.
Fucking thanks, TERFs. Aren’t you glad bathroom laws trying to prevent “men” from entering the ladies room has caused two male police officers to eject cis women from the bathroom already? Since that’s the only women you care about maybe you might actually spend longer than .5 seconds thinking about possible fucking reprocussions of this shit now.
Oh my goooooddddd this shit is ridiculous. Like, this law has always been complete and utter transphobic bullshit, but here’s the god damn proof it will never work the way these idiots want it to. You cannot determine someone’s gender by the clothes they wear. Fuck, I get misgendered and called a man all the time. Do I need to bring my I.D. next time I take a shit? I am so tired of this garbage. Let people use the damn bathroom they want to.
But this is exactly the outcome of laws like this: policing and punishing people who deviate from the gender norm. The direct target is of course trans people (with the brunt of the focus on trans women), but anyone who doesn’t fit with the norms will also be impacted by the law because now there’s a witch hunt against anyone who doesn’t seamlessly blend in.
Isn’t it terribly ironic that this law was intended to prevent men from entering a woman’s bathroom and harassing women (which wasn’t actually happening) and it has directly resulted in male police officers entering the women’s bathroom and harassing a woman?
If you’re horrified at cis women being treated like this, you sure as shit better be horrified at trans women being treated like that too.
There have been at least 3 other incidents of cis men entering women’s bathrooms under the guise of “protecting” them from trans women. These bills literally gave cis men a better excuse for invading the women’s restroom.
TERFs in the notes: why are you blaming us? cis men are the ones doing this!
TERFS in the notes: this isn’t transphobia, it’s misogyny!
TERFS in the notes: trans ppl caused this by forcing the issue in the 1st place
